Monsters Quotes - Page 34

• There is no greater monster than reason.

  Cormac McCarthy

  All The Pretty Horses, Reason, Greater

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.141, Pan Macmillan

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• Having a better and more productive life than my monster father has been my most significant accomplishment.

  Stephen Hunter

  Father, Productive Life, Accomplishment

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• But in Shimabukuro's hands, as he breaks out experimental jazz, lays down a steady blues train, or shreds on rock anthems, this little jumping flea becomes a melodic monster.

  Mother Jones

  Jumping, Rocks, Hands

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• The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.

  Voltaire

  Running, Truth, Risk

  Voltaire (2007). “The Complete Romances of Voltaire”, p.460, Wildside Press LLC

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• The image of Eternity--the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.

  Lord Byron

  Ocean, Thrones, Slime

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.189, Cambridge University Press

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• If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

  Voltaire

  Atheist, Tyrants, Soul

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• I'm definitely an anomaly, but I'm making things. They're selling, say, martinis, and I'm kind of making vintage Riesling. People aren't going to sit there very often, not your average public, and your average music-business monster is not going to take the time to notice the overtones and the undertones inside the flavor. They'd rather just have the martini.

  Ben Folds

  Average, Vintage, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's nice to do something about something that scares you rather than just run from it and hope that someone saves you. I like seeing strong female characters and somebody who doesn't run away screaming when scared, but confronts the monsters.

  Katie Holmes

  Running, Strong, Nice

  "Actress Katie Holmes Experiences Dread in Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark & Talks About It". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 7, 2011.

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• Oh yes. It's open all right, but not many people come in here to look at me now so there's no point in selling tickets. No one is interested in a man who professes to be a monster. They'll give me notice very soon. I started out being a great attraction, but people soon understood that what fascinated them about me was no more than the reflection of their own deformities. All I do is how them what is inside themselves,' He added mournfully.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Reflection, Men, People

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• It was shocking to see Nirvana play, because it was like, "Here's this little guy with a monster-guitar sound." And it was heavier than Black Sabbath. That was shocking.

  Billy Corgan

  Guitar, Play, Guy

  Interview with Marc Hawthorne, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2005.

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• For horror to work, you have to be afraid. You have to keep the monster in a black and white light.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Black And White, Light, Horror

  Source: deadline.com

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• When the monster has a dimension that allows you to humanize it, that's the route I usually want to go.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Want, Dimensions, Routes

  Source: deadline.com

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• The "just say no" campaign at this point is a lot like drawing sea-monsters over certain unexplored areas of the map and expecting people to stay away. It may work for some, but explorers live for this kind of thing.

  Terence McKenna

  Sea, Drawing, People

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• In our work, we are always between Scylla and Charybdis; we may fail to abstract enough, and miss important physics, or we may abstract too much and end up with fictitious objects in our models turning into real monsters that devour us.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Real, Missing, Important

  Murray Gell-Mann, Harald Fritzsch (2010). “Murray Gell-Mann: Selected Papers”, p.239, World Scientific

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• Life is a hailstorm of distractions. It's not the monster that stops us but the mosquito.

  Robert G. Allen

  Mosquitoes, Life Is, Distraction

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• Global war has become Frankenstein's monster, threatening to destroy both sides.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Sides, Threatening

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• When horror turns into gore, when you show the monster, the killings, and the blood, it loses its suggestive powers. It loses part of what makes a horror film a horror film, which is that the images you see develop in your brain and you become the one imagining what you are not seeing on screen.

  Raul Garcia

  Blood, Brain, Horror

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Maybe I'm a prehistoric monster by being an individual. It's highly likely. All I offer to others is their own individuality. Grab it!

  John Lydon

  Individuality, Offers, Prehistoric

  John Lydon, Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman (2014). “Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs”, p.318, Picador

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• Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the 'spirits' of things. A few years back, my wife was frustrated with the same old stupid sound effects tape we would play, which ends with the theme from 'Ghostbusters' and 'Monster Mash'. I told her that Halloween is way too cool a holiday to suffer through this every year.

  Dee Snider

  Halloween, Stupid, Holiday

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• As a fan of science fiction and as a kid who loves monsters, science fiction movies and this, that and the other, there's no real way to make a career out of that. Especially when I grew up.

  Kevin Grevioux

  Real, Kids, Careers

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In terms of viewing the world in a certain way, when you're talking about monsters and talking about the metaphor that you're trying to create, as Black Americans, you oft times stand apart and you have to look at things from the inside out or the outside in.

  Kevin Grevioux

  Talking, Black, Trying

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Wakolda or The German Doctor is a very intimate story. It is the story of a teenage girl and the way she falls in love with a monster. It is the story of a hunt and of a seduction.

  Lucia Puenzo

  Girl, Falling In Love, Teenage

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• For me, it was never a choice not to play the game because I was never attracted to it in the first place. I have plenty of friends who get stalked by the paparazzi, but it's not anything you'd aspire to. Fame is like Frankenstein's monster - once you've created it, it can get out of control.

  Robert B. Weide

  Games, Play, Choices

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Dad's tiny - his passport picture is a full-length shot. He looks like he just hopped off a key ring. Mum is a different matter, she's a bit of a handful to say the least. I love her more than anyone on this Earth. But she's a monster.

  Ricky Hatton

  Dad, Keys, Different

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• Monsters exist because we create them, through war and violence, and distortion, and the way we handle people and so on.

  Leon Golub

  War, People, Way

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